Rogers v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.

This is an action to recover damages for injuries suffered by the plaintiff in a fall. The parties stipulated that the plaintiff’s damages were in the amount of $1500. The subordinate facts found by the trial court are not challenged. The plaintiff was walking on a private concrete walk adjacent to a building occupied by the defendant as a supermarket, in Willimantic, when she stumbled and fell because of a hole in the walk. She was going into the market to make some purchases and was on the walk regularly used by people going to the market. The hole was clearly a defect, and the defendant…